Month: November 2012

We don’t have much time. On December 21, 2012, many believe the world will end. The Mayan prophecies will prove correct, and at the end of the 13th Baktun of the Maya Long Count Calendar, our world will forever change. Of course, NASA continues to rebut the idea of a looming doomsday, and even Pope …

The Sun unleashed what many are calling a “solar tsunami” on Friday, November 16, 2012, with two massive eruptions occurring within four hours. The action was caught by NASA’s space-bound Solar Dynamics Observatory. Luckily, the eruption wasn’t aimed at Earth, so we shouldn’t have anything to worry about. Yet. The Sun’s activity will reach it’s …

Not even our aquariums are safe from the coming robot apocalypse. What you see above are “lifelike Robofish,” launched at the 2012 Tokyo toy fair. They run on batteries and swim through water, accurately mimicking the motions of real fish. Of course, if you’d rather be terrified by the real thing, scientists have also successfully …

There’s always a lot of speculation about what will happen when the first time machine is switched on. Most physicists, if they believe time travel is possible, suggest that its user will only be able to travel as far back in time as when the machine was first created and initialized. Like wormholes, or Kerr …

I mentioned the Sequoia supercomputer last year, told you how it would best the world’s top 500 supercomputers combined. And you know what? It did, when in fired up in June. Here’s the thing, though: It’s already been surpassed by the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For comparison, Titan is capable of 17.59 …

A solar eclipse will occur tomorrow, November 13, at 12:30 p.m. PST (that’s 2:30 p.m. CST, 3:30 p.m. EST), visible from the northern coast of Australia. For those of us outside Australia, however, we can still view the eclipse online via a live stream, courtesy the Slooh Space Camera website. The live stream actually begins …